No regrets over handling of Vladimir Putin, says Angela Merkel
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#603P2)
Former German chancellor claims her opposition to Ukraine's Nato membership helped country
Angela Merkel has said she feels no regrets for her handling of Vladimir Putin during her time in power, arguing that Russia's president would have perceived a 2008 Nato membership plan for Ukraine that was blocked by her government as a declaration of war".
The former German chancellor also claimed that an oligarch-run and democratically immature Ukraine would have been less prepared for an invasion then than it is now.
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